A good old Grandma's square

As a like handicrafts I was delighted to do a blanket to my baby. Nice to do crochet and have a purpose for it. Crochet is nice, but many times I find it hard to imagine something useful to do. Well, this time a blanket was more than welcome and as it is for a baby its not too big so pretty fast to finalize. As I like old things, vintage etc. a good old granny's square was a perfect pattern to do. Color inspiration I got from an old Gloria magazine where there was a picture of one big blanket. The yarn is "7 veljestä" from Novita bought already in summer from Finland. Unfortunately the yarn has 20% of polyester in it, I would have preferred 100% wool, but as they had a great selection of colors I decided to accept the polyester as otherwise I probably wouldn't have made the blanket. This was an easy option this time.

The final blanket

Color options for the blanket

Yarns and ribbons

Impossible not to have an eye to yarns in Finland. Almost always when I set my foot in Helsinki I visit a yarn shop  Menita near the Design Museum. Usually I don't have anything special in mind, I just like to enjoy the atmosphere and colors of the exquisite selection of mostly natural fiber yarns. This time I had no time to go to the shop, but luckily in the biggest supermarkets in Finland there is also a great selection of Novita yarns.

Other fantastic shop is Luhti in Rovaniemi. From there I always go and buy some carpet rags. The difficulty is to buy a correct amount of something that you actually have only thought of doing, because if you then need more material it is almost impossible to get the same material here in Spain. Of course you could order via internet etc., but it always gets tricky when you are just lacking some color and for sure you wouldn't get yarn from the same dying set.

Here are the materials I bought this time and later, hopefully soon, I can share what I finally have done with these things.

Ribbons & yarns